Expansion of UK’s Largest Container Port Begins

Here is where the new berth will be built.


Work has started at the Port of Felixstowe on the latest expansion of the UK’s largest container port.




VSBW Joint Venture, a consortium of VolkerStevin and Boskalis Westminster, has been appointed as the lead contractor to extend the port’s Berth 9 by 190 metres. The work will increase the combined lengths of Berths 8&9 to 920 metres, giving the port even greater flexibility to berth the world’s largest container ships.
The Boskalis Westminster dredger, Causeway, began dredging the area on 13 April 2014. The initial dredging is in preparation for construction to begin in the summer. The project will involve dredging 1 million cubic metres of material to provide the berth and approaches, and enable a new steel-piled quay wall to be built.



Commenting on the project, Clemence Cheng, Hutchison Ports (UK) Limited Chief Executive Officer, said:
“The scale of operations at the Port of Felixstowe already gives us the ability to berth more large container ships simultaneously than other ports in the UK. The new extension will increase the berthing permutations we can offer and continue to ensure that we turn our customers’ vessels around in the quickest possible time.
“Felixstowe’s location closest to the main shipping lanes and the ports of Northern Europe already saves our customers both time and money. Combined with the best road and rail connections to serve the UK, the new extension will further extend our advantage as the port-of-choice for deep-sea container ship operators.”



Ian Cussons, VSBW Project Manager said:
“We were delighted to secure the contract for the Berth 9 extension at Felixstowe and are ready to mobilise all the necessary resources in the very near future. The tubular pile design is very similar to the existing Berths 8&9 and will be built to allow the water alongside to be dredged to 18 metres depth.”
Piling of the quay wall for the new extension will start later in the summer with construction due to complete in mid 2015. The new extension will be equipped with three new ship-to-shore gantry cranes, each with a 25-container wide outreach.




Comments

  1. Every Docker down here wants this. Every Docker down here will support this. The question is, will the solid foundations of the new quay, be able to be supported by the crumbling foundations of the core workforce?

    We will support you, treat us fairly......

    Crunch

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  2. A very true statement crunch, when they read this lets hope that they realise peoples feelings.

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  3. Read the ceos forum minutes and you will see what he wants

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  4. Sorry I do not want to talk out of turn , but the time for the docker to demand money has gone , he no longer holds the country to ransome , (I have seen it happen at seaforth) it seems it is time for veryone to work hard and work together and move stuff ? Moving stuff is money , the faster it moves the better off we all are . I drive a lorry and these days we got to move stuff into the UK and move rubbish out as fast as possible . I feel that for all concerned it onlt means slim margins for every one involved . As I was once told , "Its only the noughts on the end that make the difference" ????

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  5. Simon you are about 30 year's behind it's not about demands for money it's about protecting what we have and creating a stable future for others and not working for pennies to survive. These are very much different times for us all. It's not about money, it's about quality of life /work balance and this is worth standing up for.

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  6. Great more Pile driving day in day out and nights keeping the town awake 24/7 then they will wonder why we are too knackered to do anything. As for demanding more money Simon they have taken a lot off us in the past while we have bent over backwards to make stupid practices work. They demand this and that off us work faster work harder they say it's all very well but they don't supply enough decent machinery or conditions to do it then put in rules that stop us doing it anyway. Too many of our managers and supervisors haven't a clue they have come in from outside they know how to work a computer which tells them something can be done but they don't know our jobs or why said something cannot or should not be done. They have all been to the the Joseph Stalin school of man management and think they know best in reality most of them just drag us down. I have no confidence in the ports future with the current crop of morons in charge.As for lorry drivers in general hmm perhaps i'd better keep quiet.

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